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Regardless of whether it's Black Metal Gospel or not, I cannot stand Burzum.
I think that much was rather obvious already... :roll:
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I have tried a little Burzum out and was far from impressed. Poor production, poor musicianship, no atmosphere, no feelings..
And I always kind of thought that metalreviews.com kept their hands of burzum because it ALWAYS ends up being about anything else than the music.
Either because sombody starts slamming Burzum for Vargs non-musical activities, or the other way around because some Burzum fanatic out of noway tell people not to criticize the album because of all the non-musical aspects of the Varg..
It's the people that make it about something other than the music. That's not entirely the musician's fault really as people tend to hop to whatever the most controversial topic is.
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I must say i have been fed up pretty good with all this fuzz about bands and persons in the metal scene, when the fuzz is started because of their criminal activities rather than their music.
Like gorgoroth. Man have they got some exposure since that insident in february..
But the funny (not really) thing about this is that you could read the news of the Gorgoroth incident right here on this website. In fact, all the news clips make front page near the very top. Will you find any reviews of a Gorgoroth album here? No.
Furthermore, and even more to the point, the news regarding Varg's escape attempt last October can be found here as well. A review of any of Burzum albums? Nope.
So it seems like there may be a bit of a double standard here. Now whether it's intentional or not is pretty irrelevant. It's an easy way to only present the "negatives" a bit reminiscent to watching most news on TV. If you're adamant that you don't want Burzum on here, then don't have anything about Burzum on here (though people are bound to post on the message boards about it sooner or later, of course). I can even understand and respect that, the same way that I mentioned in another thread that even though I'd like to see "Goat Horns" reviewed, I could understand it might not be merely because the guys might not want to review an NSBM band. No problem. Be clear and honest about it if so. I understand it can be a touchy subject, moreso than your average Stratovarious news.
Whether it's listed here as a classic or not (I'm talking about "Hvis Lyset Tar Oss" now, which was the original source of disagreement) doesn't change whether or not it actually
is a classic. I can understand this album has a pretty limited appeal, and while it is regarded as a classic in black metal, it isn't very often considered so outside that. An album such as Emperor's "Anthems To the Welkin At Dusk", on the other hand, has more appeal even outside of the genre. Now that
alone doesn't make it a classic, but if we're narrowing it down to the most absolute of classics, I an see how that would come first, and 'HLTO' might come much later or, simply not at all.
But that isn't even being presented, and instead it's the "crap production, awful music, Aryan propoganda" nonsense that I've unfortunately come to expect from people who give their "opinions" about music in one sentence.
And to be honest, I tend to agree with most of what deathkvlt said about that album. Nevertheless, as I have clearly stated, I would
still understand if it never made it to the "CLASSICS" section no matter how much of an injustice I thought its exclusion was.
-Tyrion
I just wanted to say that I agree with most of the Black Metal classic requests, Burzum fucking rules and I piss on metallica!! Still I think they have their classics. There you go...